На Ютубі є досить багато роликів в яких показується, як би виглядала гра за мотивами нового фільму, чи якась сучасна гра, якби вона вийшла в 90х. Як людина, що виросла в ті часи, я би не відмовився в таке пограти, проте братись за подібні проекти ніхто не квапився, ніхто окрім нідерландських інді розробників зі студії Vlambeer, творців таких досить відомих ігор як: LUFTRAUSERS, Nuclear Throne та фрітуплейної Super Crate Box, але зараз не про них. Vlambeer показали своє бачення гри Serious Sam: The First Encounter у 8-бітній JRPG - Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.

Загалом сюжет повторює The First Encounter. Земля в руїнах, орди прибульців Ментала добивають залишки людей, а непереможний Семюлеь Стоун, на прізвисько Крутий Сем, відправляється у минуле, щоб усіх врятувати. Але тут є невеличка розбіжність з оригінальним сюжетом. В минулому Сем зустрічає Біма та Бама, борців з прибічниками інопланетного завойовника, які також були відправленні в минуле на допомогу Сему.
Якщо ви колись грали, або бачили геймплей культової Final Fantasy, то ви маєте уявлення про те як має виглядати класична JRPG. Звісно, Serious Sam: The Random Encounter до Final Fantasy, як до неба рачки, проте загальні принципи ігрової механіки прослідковуються.

Сем і Ко пересуваються по невеличких, відкритих локаціях, на яких знаходяться ключі, секрети, зброя та різні бонуси. Час від часу ми будемо стикатись з різноманітними зграями монстрів, і тут гра виправдовує свою назву – Рандом, адже напасти на нас можуть будь де, будь коли та будь хто. Єдиний кого ми будемо бити не рандомно так це боси, які тут є на кінці кожного рівня.

Перестрілки тут «Ну майже» покрокові. На Сема з друзями біжить зграя монстрів, а гравцеві потрібно вибрати кожному персонажу підібрати зброю та напрямок стрільби. Після цього нам доведеться маневрувати вверх та вниз, ухиляючись від ударів ворогів п’ять секунд поки не закінчиться хід. Окрім використання зброї, гравець може потратити хід на те, щоб підлікувати персонажів, відновити їм броню, чи повернути в стрій побитого героя.

На відміну від інших RPG, в Serious Sam: The Random Encounter відсутня прокачка, персонажі сильні настільки, наскільки ви знайдете їм зброї та предметів. Але це можна зрозуміти, адже для чого прокачка в грі яка проходиться за дві години максимум.

В підсумку хочеться сказати, що Random Encounter не погана гра, в неї цікаво та приємно грати, чудова піксельна графіка, що навіює ностальгічні почуття, динамічний геймплей, велика різновидність монстрів та зброї, але основним її мінусом є коротко тривалість, та баги. Це однозначно гра на один раз, але цей один раз буде яскравим та цікавим, придбати зі знижкою 90% можна.

Гра дуже порста і весела ! Я радий що ще розробники використовують такий стиль ))
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8.9/10

Unless you are a Serious Sam fanatic, skip this one; while it is mercifully short, this turn-based action game is plagued with terrible choices that just kill most of the fun.

Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is not a complex game: the player roams around on a top-down 2D map with Sam and two nameless guys – banded together with the intent of shooting Mental in the face (this is the entire plot, by the way) –, where they randomly end up in side-scrolling battle sequences. This sounds simple (and looks simple thanks to the 16-bit style graphics), yet somehow the developers of Nuclear Throne still managed to mess everything up.

The core flaw of the game is that it is nothing but randomness. It is only mildly frustrating that the same level can throw in three encounters or a dozen during the exact same trip. The real pain starts during combat when one realises they have zero influence on the outcome, as the player can issue exactly one command every five seconds (shoot, swap weapon, or use item) but the enemy horde attacks in real time; winning is just a question of luck on enemy composition and movement patterns. Due to this unpredictable and aggravating mechanic, it takes an unjustly amount of patience to even get to the final boss; a patience most players will probably lack.

If you want to play a bullet hell in which you can't dodge bullets, go ahead and buy this game.

I really, really wanted to like this. Vlambeer is one of my favorite developers, and I do have a small soft spot for serious sam.
The problem with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is it's a bit like Space Jam, it's an idea that sounds really great on paper but doesn't work so well in execution. It's pretty much a heavily scripted pixelated turn based RPG which has one of the oddest turn based/action combat hybrids I've ever seen. You pick a character, pick a weapon or if you want them to use an item, and then point them in a direction to fire said weapon or use said item. Then you get around 5-10 seconds of action while you try to dodge bullets and hit targets with the aim you set.
The problem with this is that especially when you gain a third party member, it becomes almost impossible to actually dodge anything or have any real "skill" with dodging or hitting. As hordes get bigger later on, aiming gets less useful too, as hordes will get so big that it pretty much doesn't matter where you aim.
Keep in mind this is a scripted RPG, so no shops, no "real" overworld and every item or weapon you get is found as part of the rigidly scripted story that's underwritten even for Serious Sam. There are technically "Random encounters" (heh), but with the rewards they dole out it's actually more resource efficient to just skip straight to the next area.

It's just not worth it. You will probably get about 3-4 stages in like I did and quit when the Texan comes into play because of how impossible it is to keep going.
Buy it maybe it if goes on sale for like a dollar and you're curious. You won't even get an hour out of this.

Don't be fooled by the trailer with all those camera close-ups, it's doesn't have that much action, You have 3 guys, sam and 2 his friends, you have like 5 seconds to shoot something then you have to pick what to do next for every single character attack again, change weapon or use skills. It's something between FF and SS but as this game shows FF+SS=FFS:

+This game has plenty of manly sam jokes in-between levels
+Notable monsters from the SS series
-This game is unplayable boring - you ever thought that serious sam game could be boring AF? No? Here you go. Somebody thought it would be fun to breed action and turn-base but its sucks so much, it takes like 80% of the time to pick what to do and 20% of the time you see any action + with most weapons you use shoot instantly and then you try to dodge stuff but this level design don't let you understand where the projectile going + you have 3 characters so you cant dodge all the stuff even if you want,
-This game so hard to beat, that with the addition of how boring it makes you want to kill yourself when you die from the huge wave of random crаp because you have to play this level all over again. Wow such a nice game, so you don't want to waste your time on it, isn't it nice?
-it has no steam achievements or steam cards

So, in conclusion, there is no any reason to buy this sh`tty game other than to fill your library with 1 more Serious Sam game if you want to collect them all. Otherwise, i highly recommend not to buy this crap.

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IF you own windows 8, DON´T BUY THIS. I doesn´t work at all, sound is bad, it´s a laggy game overall
IF you own windows 7, definitily buy this, it´s an awesome take on a JRPG wqith the Serious Sam theme, humor, lore.
(I just not recommend this because the devs said they would fix this and Super Crate Box two years ago, no progress yet).

This is an old school RPG based around the Serious Sam franchise. You'll have a top down map with enemy encounters and be taken to a RPG style battle system. The map worlds are literally one screen sections, if your party is wiped out three times, you need to restart that one map. It would feel right at home on the original Gameboy or a mobile phone. Random battles can happen when you walk one space on the map, so if that angers you, avoid this game.

The real game is the combat, each battle pits you and your allies against several if not dozens or hundreds of enemies chasing after you. You select fight, swap weapon or item. Any of your characters can use any weapon. Here's where it gets interesting, the weapons and enemies have uses like in an action game. The revolver will shoot at the closest enemy, the shotgun is a defensive weapon if any enemies or big projectiles get within a proximity of the user, the rocket launcher sends a spread of 3 rockets one per turn, the grenade launcher does big damage.... if you can hit your target in it, since enemies move, they might be gone before the grenade lands, and there's a mini gun where you aim the line and fire until the end of the turn.

Enemies have different properties too. Some will stay far and shoot, others will chase after you and damage you, killing themselves. Enemies are quicker and slower than you, so you can either outrun them or they'll catch you. All of the combat is a really fresh take on RPG turn based combat. Oh and as your turn is happening, you can move your party up and down on the screen to dodge projectiles or stall for time as you wait for the next shotgun blast.

After every battle, you get full health. The items mostly consist of armor power ups, health, attack buffs. All of which seem to be needed for bosses at the end of each one screen map.

So if I enjoy the game how could I give it a negative rating?

The game is a steep climb in difficulty before you know it. Walls of bullets, things become unavoidable, deaths are inevitable even if party members are revived with full health after a battle. Everything needs to be done in battle and that is the real downfall. You cannot use any items such as armor outside of battle. So if you're facing a wall of bullets against dozens or hundreds of enemies, you'll just get slaughtered again and again. Luck of who you fight plays a big part of your survival. You can grind all you want before a boss battle. The catch is once you've used your 3 lives, you'll need to start that map over again without all of the grinding you just did. Another problem with lack of grinding is that you can't go back to a previous map to grind and no amount of grinding will save you from bullet walls that comes with every enemy encounter past a few maps. Another downfall is there is no native controller or steam support. Not even key binding, but everything else is a much bigger glaring issue.

In all, its just a fresh take on old school RPGs and I like it, but its as if the developers didn't play the game past a certain point. If you're looking for a very difficult new RPG that is unforgiving and makes grinding meaningless, this is the game for you.

A short spin-off that probably shouldn't have happened. More for the lols than a serious game.

Unplayable in Windows 10, Games crashes at second battle upon recieveing the shotgun.